Mortuary attendants flee over missing corpse at OOUTH

Damilola Ajibola

The operatives of the Ogun State Police Command are on the trail of two mortuary attendants at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, over missing corpse.

News Contact Online gathered that trouble started when family members of the deceased approached the hospital,on Friday, for collection of the remains of the corpse said to have been deposited over four months ago for burial.

The information about the development was obtained on the Facebook Page of Ekundayo Olukayode Olukay , that the family of the deceased came from Ijebu-Ode axis to Sagamu with an ambulance and undertakers for collection of the missing female corpse.

However, the corpse could not be found to the bewilderment of people, as a search conducted on all the bodies in care of the hospital to find the corpse was unsuccessful.

The post read, “POLICE IN SEARCH FOR MORTUARY ATTENDANTS AS BODY OF A FEMALE CORPSE GOT MISSING AT OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL ( OOUTH) SAGAMU.

“A case of a missing body of a female corpse has been reported at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital ( OOUTH), Sagamu this Friday.

“Police have swung into action to unravel the mysteries surrounding the embarrassing situation.

“The CMD and other officials of the hospital were in a confused and sober mind as to what could have led to to the missing of the female corpse deposited at the morgue in the hospital since October last year.

“Family members of the deceased from Ijebu- Ode were in Sagamu today with the Undertaker (Ambulance) to collect the corpse but were surprised that when they could not locate the deceased body from the morgue out of about Sixty-nine bodies brought out for verification.

“The two mortuary attendants in charge of the morgue had fled and various phone calls to their lines weren’t going.

“The DPO and his officers with other security agencies were seen at the Morbid Anatomy and Histopathology Department inside the hospital premises.”

Efforts by News Contact Online to get the reaction of the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, was unsuccessful at the time of filing this report.